Detachable horse-foot pad



(No Model.)

F. M. DREIBELB'IS. DETAOHABL'E HORSE FOOT PAD.

No. 431,717. Patented July 8, 1890'.

UNITED 'TATEs PATENT rrrcn.

FRANK Mormon DREIBELBIS, or Los ANGEL 1s, CALIFORNIA.

DETACHABLE H ORSE-FOOT PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,717, datedJuly 8,1890.

Application filed April 22, 1890. Serial No. 348,970- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK MONROE DREI- BELBIS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and Stateof California, have invented a new and useful Detachable Horse-Foot Pad,of which the following'is a specification.

My invention relates to pads forthe bottoms of horses feet.

The object of my invention is to provide a horse-foot pad which may beattached to the horses foot when it is desired to speed him and detachedfrom the foot when the horse is to be stabled.

My invention consists of the combination of a V-shaped or forked frame,means for securing the point or stem of the frame to the toe of thehorses shoe, a stiff pad-plate pivoted to one arm of such frame, suchplate being slightly longer than the distance between the arms of theheel of the shoe and having its ends adapted for insertion between theshoe and the hoof, a pad secured to such plate, and means for securingthe plate in and releasing it from a position transverse to the axis ofthe frame.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a view of the under side of a horseshoe with my improvementattached. Dotted-lines show the pad and its plate turned in position fordetachment. Fig. 2 is a view of the upper side of the shoe andattachment.

- Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the attachment.

Fig. 4 is a rear view of a horses foot with shoe and pad attached, theshoe being in section on line a; at, Fig. 1.

A is the V-frame, provided at its apex or point with a hook a to hookinto a hole Z) in the toe of the shoe B.

C is the transverse pad-plate, to which the pad D, of rubber or othersuitable material, is secured. The pad-plate C is pivoted to one arm gof the frame A by a pivot d.

E is the locking-spring, which is secured at one end to the other arm hof frame A, and is bent atthe other end to form the locking-lug e, whichprojects through a hole in the frame and into the path .of thelockingplate, so that when in position, as shown in Fig. 3, the plate islocked from turning toward the toe. The frame is provided with thepachplate-retainin g hook 'L'. The end of arm h is bent to form the hookor lug i, which is designed to engage with the rear edge of plate 0 toprevent it from turning backward.

I believe the simplest means for securing the frame to the toe of theshoe are those shown, consisting of the hook adapted to hook into a holein the shoe; but I do not desire to be limited to such means.

In practice the pad is attached to the shoe by first hooking the hook tointo the hole I),

the pad-plate being turned diagonally across the frame, as suggested bydotted lines in Fig. 1, so as to allow the rear end of the plate to beinserted into the groove ordinarily formed between the horses hoof andthe in ner edge of the shoe. \Vhen the rear end of the plate has beenthus inserted in such groove near the heel, the other end is raised andinserted in such groove near the toe. The plate is then turned rounduntil it is transverse to the frame, as-shown in Figs. 1 and 2, carebeing had to insert the rear edge of the plate into the bend of hook 'i.plate is pressed home, the lug c springs into place, as shown in Fig. 3,and locks the plate securely. To remove the pad, the lug e is pressed upout of the path of the plate, thus leaving the plate free to be turnedinto the position shown in dotted lines, Fig. 1. Then the pad is free tobe removed.

Rubber is preferable for the pad. The arms of the V-frame are made withreference to the frog of the horses foot, care being had that they donot touch the frog, which should rest only on the plate.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The combination of the frame, means forsecuring the front of the frame to the toe of a horseshoe, the pad-platepivoted to the frame and having its ends adapted for insertion betweenthe shoe and the horses hoof, a pad Vhen the secured to such plate, andmeans for looking the plate in and releasing it from a positiontransverse to the axis of the shoe. v

2. The combination of the horseshoe provided With a hole at the toe, theforked frame provided at its point with ahook to hook into such hole,and havingthe pad-plate-retaining hook, the transverse pad-plateprovided

